G-Casper offers live-synchronized, cloud-based Call Sheets, Cast&Crew Lists, Production Reports, Exhibit G’s and more.
All for free, all Open Source.

What ThinkCrew started in 2013 has finally been ported into Google Sheets. We upgraded it with a ton of new functions that make your work easier and reduce human error. For up to 300 people on set.

At Prodigium Pictures, we make Social Impact Entertainment – but we don’t just think that movies change the world. Change is also needed within logistical backbones of the industry.

Made for Union and Non-Union ADs / production folk, the new look will allow your crew to absorb the CS more quickly on their screens – and there’s a low-ink mode for printing on set. All that is Open Source, like Casper already was. And this time, you won’t need Excel.

When it’s 3am and you’re stuck in a Honeywagon trying to push out a call sheet, errors can happen: An actor is forgotten and you scramble the next morning; a vendor is called too late for breakfast: It’s easy to overlook things when you’re tired.

That’s what G-Casper’s Error Warnings are for – giving you a heads up if you forgot something or ask you if you want to do something unusual. So expensive mistakes can stay where they belong: off your set.

Automation, Baby

G-Casper doesn’t want you to retype anything. It’s not the 1980s. Quite the opposite – we automate even more. Auto-fill scene info based on scene number – we inherited that from Casper.

Are you tired of typing out sunrise/sunset/dawn times? All done automatically, based on your shooting location and date. Hand-counting food allergies? All automated now, based on who’s on the call sheet today. And then it’s printed on the CS for your catering team.

Have too many actors to call? Automated drop-downs based on your scene breakdown. Confused by your 80 crew members? We auto-complete their names with drop-down options.

Filling in the back of your Call Sheet like it’s the 21st century.

Real-Time Collaboration Between Departments

Nothing will replace a good face-to-face meeting, but when you have 80 crew, 20 actors and 100 background to deal with, things will fall between the cracks, and there’s never enough time to talk about it all.

With G-Casper, Production can check in on the AD department and vice versa. And just like in its predecessor, daily Production Reports are created dynamically based on the call sheet, leaving space for manual corrections.

G-Casper has a full shooting schedule planned ahead – so you can determine locations and parking ahead of time rather than scrambling the night before.

New Features in G-Casper

Automatic Weather & Sun Data

Automated Weather & Sun Reports

Just let G-Casper know your shooting location and date, the rest is done for you!

Advanced Crew & Cast Sheets

Advanced Crew, Cast & BG Sheets

Auto-Coloring D/N INT/EXT

Auto-Coloring D/N INT/EXT on CS and Breakdown

With a single glance, everyone knows right away which scenes will take place at what time.

Weather Symbols

Drag&Drop Weather Symbols

Just drop the weather symbols on the front of the CS – a single glance informs the crew.

Auto-Count Food Restrictions Daily

Auto-Count Food Restrictions Daily

The catering team will thank you for a precise, automatic, daily report of what they need to ration their food for.

Save Toner/ Ink

Save Toner/Ink on Set

With a single click, you can convert the call sheet from a colorful to a bare-bones one to save ink when printing.

… and 24 more!

Live Error Warnings & Bug Trackers

Extreme Call Times

If you accidentally call someone way too early/late, G-Casper warns you that this might be a mistake.

False Scene Numbers

Scene Numbers that aren’t in the breakdown are rejected – allowing you to correct the error quickly.

Missing Script Days

If you forgot to put a script day into your breakdown, we let you know – that’ll keep your departments happy.

Missing/Excess Actors on CS

Accidentally call an actor that’s not even in a scene – or forgot one that’s needed? We got you.

… and 16 more.

The G-Casper Workflow: From the initial documents you fill in, to the documents you recycle and version each day.

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Join the G-Casper Facebook Group to Keep Learning!

One of the best things about G-Casper is its inherent ability to constantly evolve. We wanted to keep it Open Source so that everyone can use it on their own productions and keep finding ways in which we can improve G-Casper. That is why we created a Facebook G-Casper Call Sheet Support Forum. You are free to post your ideas, report bugs, add feature implementation requests and showcase your own modifications – so we can incorporate and share them in future versions of G-Casper. Join our community to make the future of digital cinema productions more efficient and productive!

We specialize in production services for Film and TV, so we always look for ways to be more efficient. G-Casper grew out of an internal toolset that we built to manage a $2M feature. This management system is a pretty complex architecture that we used on feature films like Strive. With this production management set of interlinked, live-synced documents we can manage productions between $100k-$5M, with up to 300 people on set being managed through this system.

Our system allows the producer / production partner to access a dashboard that tracks payroll, cashflow, investor tranches, and a lot more. Under the hood, we manage locations, transportation, parking, payroll for crew and cast, daily spending, actuals and full-fledged cost reports and spend analysis.

Here’s a glimpse of our production management architecture, including G-Casper’s place:

Prodigium’s internal production management architecture

We decided to release G-Casper to the public for free like ThinkCrew had done before us.

The rest of our family of production management tools stay proprietary for now.
If you want to work with us, we bring those tools along to our co-productions. 🙂

Q&A

I have more questions. Is there a manual?

G-Casper comes with a Quickstart Guide and a Feature List on the welcome page. Since ThinkCrew already did such a great job at putting together tutorials for the original Casper, we didn’t want to re-invent the wheel.

Think of G-Casper as a modded version of Casper, so nearly all lessons learned from Casper apply to G-Casper. Here are the main tutorials and manuals:

Casper was a brilliant piece of engineering, and Toby (Co-Founder of Prodigium) wondered whether it could be exported onto Google Sheets. It wasn’t possible in 2016 when he tried first, but by 2018 Google Sheets had become powerful enough, so he spent a few months porting it over together with Joey Sperber, Jonah Gercke and Vivian Li who worked for Prodigium Pictures that summer. We sat down with Michael R. Williams, one of the original creators of Casper, to get his blessing for the release – and got lots of valuable feedback that we used to revise it further.

By mid-2019, it was finally test-driven enough to publish.

I like G-Casper. Is there more?

We specialize in production services for Film and TV, so we always look for ways to be more efficient. G-Casper was initially part of an internal toolset that grew out of a $2M feature we managed. Eventually, we decided to release G-Casper to the public for free like ThinkCrew had done before us.

The rest of our family of production management tools stays proprietary – if you want to work with us, we bring those tools along to our co-productions. 🙂